OK, I admit it. Back in August 2022 in the middle of a heat wave I did a Top Comments mixing songs mentioning Dogs and songs mentioning Heat. But given the abject cruelty celebrated by potential Republican Veep candidate Kristi Noem, I’ve had pups on the brain.
This is Simba. He joined Casa Brillig back in January 2022 as an eleven week old puppy fresh off a rescue ride from Houston, Texas. He learned how to be a dog from our beloved Vorpal, who left us for the Bridge in September 2022. He’s a truly wonderful dog, gives the best cuddles of any of our four dogs to date (Simba, Vorpal, our good girl Snicker who left us in 2019, and OG pup Brillig, who’s been at the Bridge since 2007) and we can’t imagine our household without him.
He’s also eaten all of our solar lights in the backyard (we now have them hung on the fence, not staked in the ground), chewed our coffee table, gnawed off part of our foyer windowsill (hey, a pup’s gotta chew something while sitting on the steps looking out the window!), eaten more shoes than I can count, and at the age of 2.5 is still learning that not everyone we see while walking wants to be greeted exuberantly by a 100lb dog.
There is NOTHING he could do. NOTHING. that would cause us to kill him. If for some unfathomable reason we were unable to safely keep him at Casa Brillig or it became a place no longer healthy for him, we would rehome him to a place where he would be safe, loved and happy. ALL of our dogs had their faults, quirks, and behavioural traits that we might have wished otherwise. They all lived with us from the day we rescued them until they were held in our arms as we cried and the vet helped them across Rainbow Bridge.
So Dog Songs it is tonight, with some from two years ago and others new for tonight.
As I wrote in 2022, this song that makes me cry when I watch the video but sums up perfectly who dogs are to us:
Then there’s my favorite ‘dog song’, Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog, but my favorite rendition of it is by a capella wizards Five O’Clock Shadow. So I give you their mashup of Black Dog and Kiss:
If you were alive in 2000, you likely remember the ubiquitous and catchy “Who Let The Dogs Out”, performed by Baha Men. But did you know it’s actually a cover of “Doggie”, by Trinidadian musician Anslem Douglas?
If I say “Hound Dog”, you probably think Elvis. But the song was written for and recorded originally by Big Mama Thornton. Have a listen to her version:
You know I like to get Beatles songs in whenever possible. Today I learned, thanks to google, that Martha My Dear was penned by Paul McCartney for his Old English Sheepdog, Martha. Oh sure maybe it’s about a breakup, but probably the dog :)
So now it’s time for you to share your favorite Dog songs (or pictures of your favorite dogs!) in the comments, after sniffing through tonight’s Tops!
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